“Americans Are What They Eat in ‘Dinner in America'”

“It’s so sexy / To be eating dinner in America” Continue reading →

Review: The Finest Hours, 2016, dir. Craig Gillespie

  For me, watching The Finest Hours reinforced the necessity for watching movies before interviewing the talent involved in their production. Grant that this is very much an irregular practice for me, and that nobody on a set visit has seen the movie beforehand for obvious reasons. All the same, it was only inevitable that my … Continue reading →

Review: Band of Robbers, 2016, dir. Aaron Nee & Adam Nee

“When Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn back in 1884, he prefaced the novel with a wry warning: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” This … Continue reading →

The Finest Hours: The SS Pendleton Story, Fact & Fiction

“If adapting the tale of the 1952 SS Pendleton rescue – in which officers in the Coast Guard rescued the crew of the SS Pendleton and the SS Mercer off the coast of Massachusetts during a vicious nor’easter – for the movies sounds like a no-brainer, that’s because it was: when Casey Sherman, author of … Continue reading →

Interview: Kyle Gallner, The Finest Hours

“Playing a real person in a movie sounds like it should make an actor’s job easy. That kind of role has a blueprint of its own to draw on, after all; it’s just a simple matter of getting to know who your character is and learning how to emulate them. Right? Not so according to … Continue reading →